28 January-Language Practice

Dear Students

Put your name on the list if you would like to practise your English with me on Thursday from 5 - 6.15 p.m.

We can revise grammar (tenses) and/or practise speaking. 

WEEK 7 [18.01-24.01] Top 10 IT Issues, 2016: Divest, Reinvest, and Differentiate

Hello All,

I would like you to present an article from educausereview. It is very interest article about issues in 2016 I know that security issues has been already discussed in this semester, but this article describe issues in this year which can be resolved ( in my opinion).  I agree  with authors about  this issues.

This article have 3 main topic

1.  Divest
2.  Reinvest
3.  Differentiate 

Article:

Top 10 IT Issues, 2016: Divest, Reinvest, and Differentiate

 

Question

1.  Do you agree with authors ?
   
2.  Do you add some issues ?
   
3.  Which issues can be resolve in 2016 ?
   

WEEK 7 [18-24.01.2016] The Future of the University: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education

WEEK 7 [18-24.01.2016] The Future of the University: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education

I would like to present an article about new trends in higher education. In my opinion education in traditional university is a waste of time. During five years of studies young people learn a lot of useless knowledge. This essay proposes five models of innovation in higher education envisioning educational start-ups in the spirit of entrepreneurial experimentation. The author seeks to realize each of these feasible utopias as a way to disrupt higher education.

Having read  this article could you  reply to these questions?

1. Is traditional university a good or bad learning place?
2. Which of presented new university models do you prefer and why?

Polymath University is built on the educational philosophy that creativity and innovative thinking emerge from the mashing-up of disparate ideas, from the ability to make connections between what appears to be different concepts. Students choose  from a "menu" of three majors: the professions, the sciences and social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Students could not take major in English, History, and Philosophy, or Finance, Marketing, and Accounting. Instead, they would choose triple majors in History, Accounting, and Biology, for example, or Finance, English, and Chemistry.  Polymath University induces such creative potential in students by inviting them to explore three different idea-spaces in depth. Because they will be asked to transfer concepts and ideas from three disparate areas of knowledge, students at Polymath University learn to become flexible and creative interdisciplinary thinkers.

Nomad University. To educate nomadic knowledge workers, Nomad University has no fixed physical location. The spot where learning occurs shifts around the globe, with professors and students seeking out problems and experiences anywhere in the world. Perhaps they seek to solve an engineering problem in sub-Saharan Africa, mediate clashes between the police and the community in an American urban core, or design a software solution for a global multinational. Each "course" at Nomad University is organized around a specific problem. The faculty mentor identifies the problem, likely grounded in a specific research question. Then via a virtual network, the students and the professor decide on the nature of the problem and the outcomes for completion (success). They assemble at a location determined by the professor, where they will work together on the problem for a specified period of time. When the participants and their clients are satisfied and some equilibrium solution has been achieved, the student-faculty ensemble disassembles until they meet again in another location to work on a new and different problem.

Interface University focuses on the idea that machines will not — indeed cannot — supplant human cognition. The curriculum presumes that humans and computers thinking together are better than humans or computers thinking alone, and that thinking with machines allows students to engage in a level of cognition not possible with the human brain alone. Thus, at Interface University students will learn how to "think with computers." At Interface University, faculty and students treat the computer not as a tool but as a "third hemisphere" of the brain, and higher learning means developing a metaphorical "corpus callosum" with this digital hemisphere.

The Neo-Liberal Arts College teaches broad, practical intellective skills that are ready-made for action in the world, and students develop fluency in these skills. The college has no majors or electives: a degree from the Neo-Liberal Arts College signals competence in each of these 10 skills:

• Sense-making: the ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed
• Social intelligence: the ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions
• Novel and adaptive thinking: proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based
• Cross-cultural competency: the ability to operate in different cultural settings
• Computational thinking: the ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning
• New-media literacy: the ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication
• Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines Design mindset: the ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes
• Cognitive load management: the ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques
• Virtual collaboration: the ability to work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team.

Ludic University (or the University of Play) makes play the highest form of learning, well above the acquisition and production of knowledge. Engaging in play turns out to be related to the processes used by artists,31 so the activities within Ludic University look much like the kinds of activities artists engage in. If the seminar room and the laboratory define the modern research university, then the studio defines Ludic University. The university has no set curriculum, no prescribed set of courses to follow. Students follow their curiosity, exploring those subjects necessary to satisfy that curiosity on an as-needed basis. Ludic University students explore novelty and engage in generative creation: imagining that which does not exist, bringing the new into being. Capturing imaginative activity in public symbolic form defines the central activity of Ludic University. Students of the University-as-Playground engage in world-making, with players building pretend worlds, inhabiting them, playing in them, and role playing within these imaginary environments. Students and faculty also transgress the rules, invent new rules, and play games based on these new rules.

Link do artykuły raz jeszcze: 

http://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/11/the-future-of-the-university-speculative-design-for-innovation-in-higher-education

WEEK 7 [18.-24.01.2015] Audio Mastering

Hi everyone! I would like to share with you an article on mastering. My passion is music and in particular the desire to reproduce the true sound of home conditions. There's a helpful audio mastering.

Mastering is an art and a science. Mastering is the final creative and technical step prior to pressing a record album (CD, DVD, cassette, or other medium). Compare mastering to the editor's job of taking a raw manuscript and turning it into a book. The book editor must understand syntax, grammar, organization and writing style, as well as know the arcane techniques of binding, color separation, printing presses and the like. Likewise, the Mastering engineer marries the art of music with the science of sound.

LINK To article 
http://www.digido.com/articles-and-demos12/13-bob-katz/26-audio-mastering.html

My questions :
1. Did you meet with the recordings that you were able to identify as a good or bad?

2. When you listen to music it also draws attention to sound quality?


3. What do you think is appropriate? - Presenting at music such as that was recorded? or adjusting the music to sound even better and more beautiful?

WEEK 7 [18.-24.01.2015] 10 Business Intelligence Trends for 2016

Hello everyone,

This week we will talk about Business Intelligence systems and the predictions for BI for this year.
I would like you to go through this short article:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2496370,00.asp
and try to answear the following questions:
Have any experience connected with the BI? Do you recognize any BI vendors?
Which prediction, in your opinion, is most promising? What are the advantages of this direction? Which direction, in your opinion, is useless?
Do you know any interesting ways of processing the IoT data in BI systems?

Traditional classes- delivering presentations

Dear Students,
Decide when you would like to deliver your presentation.
It should be from the area of your studies and it should be 10-13 minutes long.

28 January 2016     5 p.m.-8 p.m. room 108

1. 6.15 p.m. Monem

2. 6.30 p.m. Misiak Kinga

3. 6.45 p.m. ZC

4. 7.00 p.m.Tomasz Rutkowski

5. 7.15 p.m. Dominika Krysińska 

6. 7.30 p.m.Adam Kassenberg
7. 7.45 p.m. Piotr Wójcik 

29 January 2016   room 108

1. 5 p.m. Emilia Zawadzka

2. 5.15 p.m. s14772

3. 5.30 p.m. Tomasz Sznajder

4. 5.45 p.m. Mateusz P.

5. 6 p.m. Marcin Krysiński

6. 6.15 p.m. Wiesław Maleszewski

7. 6.30 p.m. Maciej Grzeszak

8. 6.45 p.m. Dawid Pacholczyk

9. 7.00 p.m. Paweł Dyda

1 February 2016  room 108

1. 5 p.m.  Przemysław Kłosiński

2. 5.15 p.m. Kasia Ścibisz

3. 5.30 p.m. J. Sielewonowska

4. 5.45 p.m. Mikołaj Szypke

5. 6 p.m.     obastemur

6. 6.15 p.m. Dorota Muza

7. 6.30 p.m.Paweł Markowski
8. 6.45 p.m. Maciej Niewiński

2 February 2016  room 108

1. 5.45 p.m.  Piotr Gzik

2. 6 p.m.      Pavel Savov

3. 6.15 p.m.  Adam Urbanowicz

4. 6.30 p.m.  Julia Wilczyńska

5. 6.45 p.m. Michail Mokkas

6. 7.00 p.m. Iwo Kosowski-Banasiak

Week 6 [04-10.01.2016] Augmented reality and business

I would like to present you an article from my blog. Augmented reality in business. This technology is mostly associated with entertainment and/or sci-fi movies, but it is more and more present in our every day life. We can find new examples of usage in business marketing, medicine in every important for us branch of our lives.
In my opinion AR is our future, it is just a matter of time when we`ll have AR glasses, cars with full HUD, or smart windows in our homes. We should stop asking "how?" or "is that possible?" and start asking "when and where it will start for good?"

http://www.augmented-universe.com/2015/09/augmented-reality-in-business.html

1. What do you think about augmented reality ?
2. Do you know any interesting usages of AR ?
3. Do you think it will become as popular as a smartphone ?

Week 6 [04-10.01.2016] OpenAI as a way to mitigate AI threats

Hello All, Earlier this week Kinga posted an interesting article about breakthroughs in the field of AI. I, on the other hand, would like to discuss threats related to AI research and OpenAI initiative/company which is supposed to mitigate them. 

We already had an interesting discussion whether advanced AI research is a threat for human existence (Week4, Has science gone too far?). I’m proposing this topic as a followup to our earlier discussion.

OpenAI is non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Its goal is to advance AI research in the way which will benefit to humanity as a whole. The interesting thing is that all OpenAI research and patents will be open to public and code will be open sourced. The organisation was founded on December 11th 2015 and among the founders are Elon Musk, Sam Altman (CEO of Y Combinator) and other well know tech entrepreneurs. OpenAI has world-class research engineers and scientist on board and $1billion budget donated mostly by the founders.

I cannot recall any other research initiative which has such an interesting goal and is so well (privately) founded. I’m pretty exited about OpenAI and I plan to follow its research. You can read more about OpenAI on the official website. Please read through this interesting interview with Musk and Altman in which they discuss their motivation for creating OpenAI: https://medium.com/backchannel/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinator-plan-to-stop-computers-from-taking-over-17e0e27dd02a#.5w9vvndtq.

Few questions to start the discussion:

1. What do you think about OpenAI initiative?
2. Do you feel that this is the right way to address the existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence?
3. Do you recall any other similar initiatives? Do you think this model could be replicated in other areas?

Week 6 [04-10.01.2016] 2016: New Frontiers in Innovation

Hey everyone,
I stumbled across this article and since it's the beginning of a new year lets make some predictions of what it could bring. The past year left us with some amazing breakthroughs like the successful landing of the SpaceX Falcon 9.
The article describes possible new frontiers in innovation in the year 2016. Some of the areas in which it considers rapid advancements are:
Internet of Things (IoT) - organizations collaborate to create unified standards. Low-cost microprocessors - which will allow hardware level security of nearly any appliance. Privacy and access to content regulations - triggered by the rise and success of services like Netflix, etc. Superior quality TVs - smart TVs, 4k and HDR streaming content (it requires a lot of standardization still). Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) - rise of standards to ensure safety in cars. Vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communication - car connectivity.

Below I've listed some questions for you to keep the conversation going:
1. Which of the innovations presented in the article looks most promising for you?
2. Do you know of any additional innovations which might appear this year? (Maybe some related to your area of study).
3. Which of the breakthroughs achieved in the passing year (2015) was your favourite?

Week 6 The top A.I. breakthroughs of 2015

Hi everyone,

First of all I would like to wish you all the best in the New Year :)

I found for you a very interesting topic. I know that AI subject has been already discussed in this semester, but recently the issue of AI has become so popular that I took the liberty to publish yet another installment of the AI saga; namely “The top A.I. breakthroughs of 2015”

Which of these achievements do you think is:

1 - the best ?

2 - the most promising ?

3 - the most interesting ?

and the question asked by the author:

- “ (…)  even more exciting are the developments we don’t expect.” – what these could be in your opinion ?

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-top-ai-breakthroughs-of-2015